Star Wars media recently has only that universe from just after the fall of the Empire with it very rarely going to an earlier point in the StarWars timeline. Well now we have a new Star Wars live action TV show that actually takes us to that universes earliest point on screen and well you all just knew that I had to check this show the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the show that takes us back to the earliest point in the Star Wars universe on screen with the TV show in question being called simply just "The Acolyte" enjoy.
The plot of these first two episodes is a series of sinister crimes force a bunch of Jedi to go looking for the culprit and stop them before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / resented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not really that bad as it was alot better then what it really had any right to be but at the same time tho the plot in these episodes was also really wafer thin that at times it really was hard to work out what the plot of these first episodes was really meant to be in the first place as the plot really just comes and goes whenever it really pleases and when it's there and focused on it really just doesn't keep your interest for longer then a few minuets and best with the plot of these episodes not really being really rather entertaining nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in these episodes is Lee Jung-jae as Master Sol , Rebecca Henderson as Vernestra Rwoh and Amandla Stenberg as Osha Aniseya and Mae Aniseya. Also starring in these episodes is Logan star Dafne Keen as Jecki Lon , Charlie Barnett as Yord Fandar , Anthony J. Abraham as Fillik , Thara Schöön as Tasi Lowa , Manny Jacinto as Qimir , Joonas Suotamo as Kelnacca and Games Of Thrones star Dean-Charles Chapman as Torbin.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. However at the same time tho the acting that's in these first two episodes wasn't all that good either as while alot of the cast are quite clearly trying to turn in a good performance it's clear as day that the episodes director and the shows showrunner and the writer of the first episode Leslye Headland really doesn't know how to direct her cast and has no idea how to get a good performance out of her cast with it being clear as day that while the actors aren't miscast there just lost on what to do acting wise with the acting in these episodes really not being helped by the fact that the scripts for these first two episodes is really bad as it gives none of the episodes cast absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does bring down the overall quality in these episodes.
Doing the CGI for these episodes is Clear Angle Studios , Hybride , Industrial Light & Magic , Luma Pictures , Outpost VFX , Proof , Rising Sun Pictures and beloFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad but at the exact same time tho alot of the CGI in these first episodes just looked really bad as alot of the time it looks like a late Playstation 3 cutscene and not something that you'd expect to see in a TV show that has a budget of $180 million dollars and while yes these two episodes do have some good looking CGI effects in them they have alot more bad looking effects in them with both of the episodes having alot more bad looking effects that they do have good looking effects in them with this being made all the more worse when you look at the effects companies that are providing the CGI for these two episodes as we all know that these effects can and have done better effects in other movies and quite frankly better TV shows.
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There was one name that was left of the cast list in this post and that's Carrie-Anne Moss as Indara not because she's bad in the episodes. Rather it's because she's killed of within the first five minuets of the shows first episode and yet as you can see by the above poster she's front and centre on the poste which would make you believe that she's going to be a main character and yet for some strange reason the makers of this show thought that it was a good idea to kill of one of the best actresses in this show all because of the fact that they wanted to defy our expectations and yet it doesn't work as within the short amount of tie that Indara appears in episode one she is already more likeable the alot of the other main hero characters which just makes her appearance in this show feel like a waste of Carrie-Anne Moss and heck even the fourth Matrix movie gave her more to do and she's not in that movie all that long either and yet in that movie she gets more to do then what she does in the first five minuets of this shows first episode.
When your in the build up to the realise of your show then one thing that you don't want to do is make the people that you should be trying to win over angry and that's the very thing that this shows showrunner , creator , writer , executive producer and director Leslye Headland did. As a few short days she did an article with The New York Times with Kathleen Kennedy where she strongly implied that if you don't like this show then she doesn't consider you to be a true Star Wars fan and not because of the fact that the show itself is a bad show this right here is just the latest example of the franchise blaming us the fans for not liking something that they've done and it's something that's got to stop as Disney are also doing it with Doctor Who and guess what people aren't watching it because there telling us not to watch it and that's exactly what there doing here and as a result of that is that we shouldn't be surprised when more articles come out about this show getting bad reviews and don't be surprised if it turns out that not alot of people watched the show in the first place with this just being the latest example of they should just stop talking and let people get excited tom watch there show and be allowed to form there own opinion of the show regardless of if you'd consider them to be a true fan or not.
One of the few things that these episodes get right is it does show the Star Wars universe at a point in time that really hasn't been seen outside of the comics and books. Which is great as it gives us a chance to see how the things that we loved to see in either the prequel or original trilogy came to be and while the show doesn't rightfully go that far with that idea in these first episodes it is still interesting to see a time period that we haven't seen before and it is a time period that's oddly done better in this show then The High Republic comics and books and it does give the chance to see what the Jedi were like when they were basically at there fall strength when compared to the original trilogy when they were all but gone and the prequel trilogy when they really didn't do all that much and yet here we do get to see them act like space police officers but at the same time it wold have been nice if we did get to sow the seeds for things that would go onto to become beloved things in either the prequel or original trilogy as it is something that would make sense to see in these first twp episodes of the show.
Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running tome of exactly forty minuets and forty seven seconds whilst episode two of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly thirty six minuets and forty seconds. With both episodes having some solid running times but out of the two episodes it's episode one that has the better running time as even tho both episodes don't have alot of plot to justify there respective running times it's episode one that takes more advantage of it's running time by giving us moments that do give us a decent look at who these characters are as people and while episode two does come across as being a little bit more focused with it's running time it also doesn't allow scenes to breathe and just take there time and as a result of that is the fact that alot of the episodes don't feel earned as instead they come across as feeling rushed and while this could also be the case for episode one as well at least with that episode there's the excuse of trying to setup the plot of the show where as episode two really doesn't have that excuse going for it but I will admit that both of these episode do have some really good pacing to them tho.
So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. With thew action that we got in both of these episodes being the best part of both episodes as that's where we get to see just how awsome Carrie-Anne Moss is as even after all of these years after the first Matrix movie she can still more then hold her own in an action scene with her fight scene at the start of the first episode being the best action scene in both of these two episodes even as all it was was just people taking part in hand to hand combat but there's so much then that as we get to see her opponent Mae Aniseya try and in alot of cases fail to outsmart Indara until the very scene which is a great way of telling a story without stopping the action to do so in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall while this isn't the best start to this series it's not the worst start to it either as while these two episodes don't really give you a reason to watch the rest of this shows first season there really is plenty of potential there for this show to be a really good show not just a good Star Wars show but a good show in general in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as ll of the bad things that are in these very episode in this very post and since this is only my first impressions I won't be giving this show a rating however if this post does decently well and if you guys want me to check out another episode then I will do it and that post would then be a review of that episode and that episode only and not a review of the show as a whole.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official Disney fandom wiki page , the official Star Wars fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to really use to get the images from these very episodes that I really used in this very post being the really great the official Star Wars fandom wiki page simply just really due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from these very episodes and are really of course up and really on the really great the official Star Wars fandom wiki page are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.